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one year ago…”More Pruning”

The turbine spinning in the fog.

one year ago…”Maple Syrup at Last”

Once you start driving a Toyota, you’ll never stop!

Toyota. Moving Forward. Whether You Want to or Not.

Have You Driven into a Ford Lately?

Holy cow, even we didn’t know the Prius could go 94 mph!

And word is that Toyota is in talks with Infiniti to purchase rights to the Infiniti slogan “Infiniti. Accelerating the Future.”

one year ago…”Boiling Sap”

Even during the day it is not clearing out.  But signs of green are appearing in the mud season!

one year ago…”Sunday Afternoon Class”

It’s available on any computer or our cell phones. This shows on a map where two of our family members are at this particular time. The girls thought it was a bit creepy for us to be able to know where they always were, but it sure comes in handy for wondering when someone will be home for dinner, knowing when to pick them up from a sporting event in Fort Dodge or Mason City, or if Dad is still moving on his ride home from Des Moines on a slippery night.

You can even zoom in to a very detailed level to locate someone – on this photo, it looks like Linda might be in a greenhouse – shocking, I know! Best of all, it just costs $5.00 month. I wonder what the implications for law enforcement are regarding placing people at the scene of a crime with all these GPS enabled phones? I can get emails at times I request for locations of any family member. We have shared the password with the kids, so they could also see where we are at.  It gives them precious minutes to get the dishes done or boys out of the house when we are on our way home!

one year ago…”Maple Sugaring Part 2″

This was the birth we were most worried about since the ewe was only a year old.  But as you can see, momma did just fine!  She’s a very vocal mother, and makes all kinds of low muttering sounds to her lambs.

one year ago…”Maple Sugaring Part 1″

This is during the throes of the replumbing.  This hole will contain a sump pit and that will service the floor drains and will also accommodate part of the moving of the kitchen and dishwasher to the main septic line.  We could have tried to do it cheaper and easier, but it would have meant putting the floor drains in the septic – and in the case of water in the basement, the septic drain field would be saturated, and running groundwater into it, would cause that to fail as well – so we bit the bullet and fixed both problems at once.

The hole cleaned up well – now we just have to wait for the cement to dry and see how we can rearrange the basement as there is no longer room for the chest freezer against this wall.

one year ago…”Thingamajig Thursday #156″

• You’ve probably seen me on TV in the last month.
• I grew up in a house with no running water or electricity.
• I grew up a vegetarian.
• I own a 630 acre farm in New Hampshire that contains an organic farm and woodland conservation easements.
• I have five Olympic medals.

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one year ago…”Tree Pruning”

- George Harrison

Indeed, the only slightly sub-freezing days are slowly melting the snow and ice.

It has been a long, cold lonely winter, and it does feel like years since the sun’s been here. Amen!

one year ago…”Getting Ready to Fence Cement Yard”

Do you prefer to see one cat in an old bushel basket on a sunny day?

Or do you prefer to see two cats in a basket?

one year ago…”Real Raised Beds”